When You Become an NPC That Might Die Any Moment in the Novice Village

Players are like sponges: just give them a good squeeze, and you won't have any trouble wringing out experience.

It was the perfect time for her to celebrate her promotion to Dominator status with a grand event, encouraging players to open their wallets, and transfer all the experience they'd been accumulating over to her.

Task branch 3's assassination target was the Commander of the Honorable Force, with a reward of 300 million experience points, a random Spiritual Ability Construction blueprint (red) *1, and Void Dragon Potion *2.

Bai Fu tapped on the blueprint.

In a flash, three options popped up before her eyes.

[1. Spiritual Ability Absorption Device (red)]

[2. Spirit Restraint Device (red)]

[3. Mobile Palace (red)]

The first was a device that automatically absorbed Spiritual Energy and stored it. Since there were plenty of players offering Spiritual Energy for free and bottling it up, Bai Fu didn't need this one.

Building such automated devices wasn't necessarily more cost-effective than exploiting player labor.

The second was a mental class weapon capable of forcibly altering a target's beliefs, and it had many uses.

The third, just like the name suggested, was a moveable palace imbued with Spiritual Energy that could even travel interstellar distances, serving as a complete substitute for conventional spaceships.

Bai Fu's eyes lingered between the second and third options.

After some thought, she still chose the Mobile Palace, mainly because her Spiritual Ability attribute didn't enhance the Spirit Restraint Device, and she didn't need to forcibly change beliefs to increase her followers. If control was the only goal, the effects of White Nightmare and Night Infection were far stronger.

The great advantage of the Mobile Palace was that as a mode of transport, it was largely invulnerable to most Mechanic invasions. Bai Fu, who held the Virtual Heart in her grasp, was well aware of how troublesome high-level Mechanics could be. She didn't want her spaceship turning into an enemy's remote-controlled bomb mid-flight.

[You have received a new Spiritual Ability Construction Blueprint [Mobile Palace (red)]]

Next, Bai Fu opened the description of the Void Dragon Potion.

This was a potion that greatly enhanced strength, agility, and constitution, with a significant chance of activating the Void Dragon's Talent. The downside was that the potion had rather high requirements.

"A 51.8% chance of dragonification?"

Even with the Talent for luck, Bai Fu wasn't about to carelessly consume potions this time; she needed to find a way to get hold of an item that would reduce the dragonification activity.

Task branch 4's destruction target involved taking down the Glorious Army, with Bai Fu's final contribution being 89.1% and the reward being 17.82 billion experience, Exploration Degree, Leader's Skill Cards [Extreme·Life Furnace] and [Planet Explosion] one of each, and a special Skill Book [Spiritual Power Exercise Method·Fantasy Extreme Cold Hell].

No need to mention the Skill Cards, that exercise method was a treasure, capable of increasing Spirit Resistance and Spirit Attribute.

Different from the Apostle's Heart and the Apostle's Path, this exercise method could be enhanced by investing experience points to increase the number of layers stacked.

And not only could she use it herself, once she had fully mastered it, she could copy it for An Ya, Vic, Cipris, or even the players, because it was a Skill Book, not an Awakening Skill like the Apostle's Heart, and Apostle's Path.

The reward for Task 5, Seeking Truth, was the precious Copy Card that Bai Fu had been eagerly anticipating.

She had already decided to use this card to copy a skill that would boost burst endurance, but she hadn't found a target yet, so she had to keep it for the time being.

After inventorying the task rewards, Bai Fu opened the game map, intending to see where the Leader had gone.

If the Leader's target was one of those two bases under her control, then she'd have to beat them back to stop the Leader.

To her surprise, the Leader's target was neither the base of Dark Moon Tide, nor Tem Civilization, nor the Rebirth Empire.

"Ah, where is he planning to go?"

Bai Fu was a bit confused.

Could it be that the Leader had other secret bases or hidden trump cards?

She hurriedly activated the Virtual Heart she had implanted on the Leader's spaceship during the previous engagement.

Inside the spaceship, the Leader sat calmly in the cockpit, meditating, showing no signs of anomaly.

Bai Fu then accessed the ship's navigation data, as well as surveillance data.

Looking at this, she was majorly startled.

Cripes, Lupus has been cozying up with the Ten Saints Association, and they've even invited the Leader to join?

Holy smokes, there was such a grudge between the Saint and the Rebirth Empire, and that Saint person actually found a Cosmic-Level Civilization in the Dark Domain?

Both pieces of news were explosive on their own, but together, they were an ace in the hole for Bai Fu, a card she could use to exchange for many good things from the Rebirth Empire.

"I must immediately get in touch with the Imperial Defense Bureau. Get me Julian's contact infor—"

At that moment, Bai Fu suddenly noticed all the lights in the spaceship's cockpit go dark, and the game's emergency alert sounded in her ears.

[The Virtual Heart has been invaded!]

Damn!

Bai Fu's face turned pale.

If even the Virtual Heart couldn't withstand it, the enemy was definitely a Dominator Level Mechanic, if not a Super Supreme Level!

"Hurry, initiate the spaceship's self-destruct protocol, Julia, fuse with me."

Bai Fu quickly issued the command.

...

"There's trouble. Something unclean is on Kade's spaceship."

In the borderlands of the Edge World, a surprisingly slender man with a lollipop in his mouth showed a hint of surprise.

Lupus, standing beside him, asked, "Has there been a leak?"

"It's already leaked, but it's not beyond repair. I've reverse-locked the spacecraft of the person who left the dark peg. As long as we kill everyone on that spaceship in the meantime, we'll be fine."

"You're planning to blow up the spaceship?"

"Fear is, a spaceship explosion won't kill that person. Judging by the level of that dark peg, that must be a Dominator Level Mechanic."